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Solid State Properties of Copper- Silver- Sulphide Thin Film Deposited by Solution Growth Technique
Chemical bath deposited Copper Silver Sulphide (CuAgS) thin films on glass substrates were studied for its optical properties using spectrophotometer. Some of the optical properties studied include absorbance, transmittance, reflectance, refractive index, optical conductivity, absorption coefficient, dielectric constant and extinction coefficient. The direct band gap obtained is 2.3eV and the indirect band gap is 1.1eV. Some of the possible applications of the film were discusse
Vapor deposited titanium dioxide thin films - Some properties as a function of crystalline phase
Vapor deposited titanium dioxide thin films - some properties as function of crystalline phas
Measuring dielectric properties at the nanoscale using Electrostatic Force Microscopy
Several electrostatic force microscopy (EFM) - based methods have been recently developed to study the nanoscale dielectric properties of thin insulating layers. Some methods allow measuring quantitatively the static dielectric permittivity whereas some others provide qualitative information about the temperature-frequency dependence of dielectric properties. In this chapter, all these methods are described and illustrated by experiments on pure and nanostructured polymer films. A section is dedicated to EFM probe - sample models and especially to the Equivalent Charge Method (ECM)
A variation equation for the wave forcing of floating thin plates
A variational equation is derived for a floating thin plate subject to wave forcing. This variational
equation is derived from the thin plate equations of motion by including the forcing due to the
wave through the integral equation derived using the free surface Green’s function. This equation
combines the optimum method forsolving the motion of a thin plate (the variational equation)
with the optimum method for solving the wave forcing of a floating body (the Green’s function
method). Solutions of the variational equation are presented for some simple thin plate geometries
using polynomial basis functions. The variational equation is extended to the case of plates of
variable properties and to multiple plates and example solutions are presented
Superconducting Material Diagnostics using a Scanning Near-Field Microwave Microscope
We have developed scanning near-field microwave microscopes which can image
electrodynamic properties of superconducting materials on length scales down to
about 2 m. The microscopes are capable of quantitative imaging of sheet
resistance of thin films, and surface topography. We demonstrate the utility of
the microscopes through images of the sheet resistance of a YBa2Cu3O7-d thin
film wafer, images of bulk Nb surfaces, and spatially resolved measurements of
Tc of a YBa2Cu3O7-d thin film. We also discuss some of the limitations of the
microscope and conclude with a summary of its present capabilities.Comment: 6 pages with 9 figures, Proceedings of the Applied Superconductivity
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Effects of annealing and strain on La_{1-x}Ca_{x}MnO_{3} thin films: a new phase diagram in the ferromagnetic region
Oriented, single phase thin films of La_{1-x}Ca_{x}MnO_{3} have been
deposited onto (100)-oriented LaAlO_{3} (0.1<x<0.5) substrates using the Pulsed
Laser Deposition technique. While for some compositions the physical properties
(transport and magnetization) of the as-grown films are higher than the bulk
values, for other calcium contents the optimized properties are obtained only
after annealing under oxygen. These data can be partly explained by changes in
oxygen content, resulting in cationic vacancies and thus self-doping effects -
accompanying structural changes, may be the cause of properties beyond the
phase diagram. We propose a new phase diagram for
(La_{1-x}Ca_{x})_{1-y}\square_{y}MnO_{3} (0.1<x<0.5) thin films.Comment: 8 pages, 5 figures submitted to Applied Physics Letter
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